Yeah, my advice would always be to buy used enterprise-grade drives with SMART reports. Data center drives get swapped out for minor issues, or just for operating hours with no issues. Plenty of life left in them for home lab use, especially if you’re running something like TrueNAS with active health monitoring and load balancing.
I started looking for more HDDs to add to my NAS and the pricing made my blood run cold.
Yeah, my advice would always be to buy used enterprise-grade drives with SMART reports. Data center drives get swapped out for minor issues, or just for operating hours with no issues. Plenty of life left in them for home lab use, especially if you’re running something like TrueNAS with active health monitoring and load balancing.
I’m slowly migrating to used SAS drives since my NAS supports it.